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For me the medium action is the all round rod and reel. I can catch almost anything besides heavy catfish and muskie.The light can catch trout except for the 8lb+ ,bullheads,suckers, and panfish

Quite possibly because of the way they are made. (Most) of today’s graphite rods are made by wrapping carbon fibers around a mandrel,
then a "hoop" – either fiberglass or graphite is wound inside the blank. It is then pressure cured with epoxy resins. The smaller diameter the blank, the more labor intensive and precise it has to be.

I don’t seem to be able to find a device that can copy these reels.

The machines that do this sort of digitizing are quite expensive – over $1000 – see http://www.retrothing.com/2005/10/digitizing_movi.html

There are other options though. The problem of course is that you do not have any sort of analogue output off of the projector – other than the projected image.

Two ways you can do this depending on the quality you want:

1. Send your films to a company that specialises in digitizing film such as http://www.digitalpickle.com/film.shtml – the prices are fairly reasonable if the movies are important to you.

2. Option 1 will give you the best quality to be sure, but another option would be to set up your projector (assuming you have one) and project onto a good screen. Set up a tripod with a digital video camera and record the projected movie. With the proper set-up you can actually do a pretty good job of capturing the movie this way.

Hope that helps.

Will pay for taxi, get train or whatever but will have lots of luggage. Help please.

Hi,
If you have a place to stay with an address make reservations with the Super Shuttle. This will save you at least $50.00 in cab fare. I really don’t care for the cab service in SF. Good Luck

I want to do-it-yourself. Termite bait system but I don’t know where to buy it and how to install it? Thank You very much

Baiting is not rocket science and while there are a lot of cute little plastic numbers available for sale, there are many ways to make your own baits at far less cost. Wood, of they type you know gets eaten locally, and preferably pieces that are well weathered or partly decayed are all you need to start. Check out http://www.drdons.net/bbox.htm

Otherwise, you’ll just need to spend some time finding out what works locally for you.

Once you have a good sized feeding group of termites (usually about a cupful) then it is time to get a professional pest manager to apply a toxin.

Remember that old, forgotten or ignored baits can increase your isk of termite problems, so if you put them in, take them out when no longer needed.